Text Filtering

[Smokeonthewater]

Lightroom Version Number

5.3 [938183]

Operating System

1. macOS 10.13 High Sierra

Hi All,

I am working on improving my metadata.

I hoped to find a way to filter out all pictures that would "not contain" a title or caption text for instance.
But I haven't found the way to do it if any as the filters are not offering an option such as "show if empty".

Is there a way to show images that have empty text fields ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[clee01l]

I’m not on LrC at the moment. Some fields allow for the option “is empty” I can’t remember if Title is one of them.

“Does not contain” will always work. For the criteria [a b c and so forth for 26 letters on to x y z] Note the space between letters. Alternately [a e i o u] if you always have word that contain one of the vowels.


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[Jim Wilde]

The Smart Collection criteria for both "Title" and "Caption" have the "Is Empty" operand.

 

[Smokeonthewater]

I’m not on LrC at the moment. Some fields allow for the option “is empty” I can’t remember if Title is one of them.

“Does not contain” will always work. For the criteria [a b c and so forth for 26 letters on to x y z] Note the space between letters. Alternately [a e i o u] if you always have word that contain one of the vowels.


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Pretty clever to use all alphabet letters or numerals with a "does not contain" operand to look for empty fields. But Jim's answer here below kills it. Thanks Clee.

 

[Smokeonthewater]

The Smart Collection criteria for both "Title" and "Caption" have the "Is Empty" operand.

Thanks Jim, that totally does the job in an easy-peasy way.

 

[Smokeonthewater]

Thanks Jim, that totally does the job in an easy-peasy way.

I got enthusiastic too quicly I guess. LR 5.3 doesn't have the "is empty" operand available.

 

[clee01l]

I got enthusiastic too quicly I guess. LR 5.3 doesn't have the "is empty" operand available.

Is Empty is a feature added in a more recent version. That’s why the alphabet solution was developed long ago. Not every field has a “is Empty” option so the alphabet solution is still needed for those that don’t. I originally suggested both solutions because I could not remember which field had “is Empty” and which did not.

The space character in the criteria field represents the “OR” function. So the criteria gets interpreted as {Doesn’t contain}{a OR b OR c…}


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[Smokeonthewater]

Is Empty is a feature added in a more recent version. That’s why the alphabet solution was developed long ago. Not every field has a “is Empty” option so the alphabet solution is still needed for those that don’t. I originally suggested both solutions because I could not remember which field had “is Empty” and which did not.

The space character in the criteria field represents the “OR” function. So the criteria gets interpreted as {Doesn’t contain}{a OR b OR c…}


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Thanks Clee ! I got it working with the alphabet solution.